Fannie Looks to Foster Stability, Maturity in Risk-Sharing Business
January 30, 2015
Fannie Mae’s risk-sharing business had a gang-buster year in 2014, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency set a higher goal for the GSE in 2015. “Certainly we were very pleased with where we were able to take the program last year,” said Laurel Davis, Fannie vice president for credit risk transfer, in an interview with Inside The GSEs. “If you think about 2013, our goal then was to just launch something and to test the market and see what would happen.” The plan for 2014 was “to establish a regular pattern of issuance with the market,” Davis said. “Even though we had a good amount of issuance last year, obviously the program itself is still in its infancy. So our ...